CCP Games' website has been updated with a new blog post about planned features for COSMOS, the company's planned social networking tie-in to EVE Online. The new dev blog details the new in-game mail system to be debuted with the release of the Dominion expansion.

Team Cosmos Client, working closely with our cousins in Team Cosmos Web (seriously, this is Iceland, they are our actual cousins), have been working hard to bring you a shiny new mail system that functions much more like the mail clients we all use out of game. The first step towards the Utopian ideal of a sleek, seamlessly integrated web and in-game mail system is the all new in-game mail system that we will be unveiling with Dominion.

In this blog I am going to talk about the main features of this new system and give some insight into some of the decisions we made around implementing them.

Before I go into more depth, here are the headline features:EVEMail - The place to find all your mails from other players and player organisations.

Notification manager - A separate interface for all NPC communications.

Mailing Lists - A redesigned backend with a new management interface, which is integrated into the mail system.

Corp and Alliance Bulletin Boards - Added to the corp and alliance interface to replace the Bulletin Board function of the old corp and alliance mailing lists - more on this below.